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Taylorsville planners consider easing rules for detached ADUs; ask staff for GIS analysis and text amendment
Summary
At the June 10 meeting, Taylorsville Planning Commissioners discussed proposed standards for external accessory dwelling units — including an 8,000 sq ft lot-size proposal, owner-occupancy, size limits of 200–1,500 sq ft, shared utilities, and a recommended ban on short-term rentals — and asked staff to prepare a formal text amendment and GIS analysis for a potential July public hearing.
Taylorsville Planning Commission members spent the bulk of their June 10 meeting debating proposed standards for external accessory dwelling units (ADUs), directing staff to prepare a formal code amendment and additional neighborhood-mapping analysis that could lead to a public hearing as soon as July.
Senior Planner Jim Spung explained the discussion was part of the city’s response to Utah Code § 13-9a-403 and the city’s Moderate-Income Housing Plan strategies, and that the goal was to gather commissioner input before drafting ordinance language for a public hearing. He said the city had selected five strategies that include creating or reducing regulations for internal or detached ADUs.
The draft concepts discussed by staff and commissioners included a proposed minimum lot size of 8,000 square feet…
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